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Positive Black Swans: How to fund research so that it generates great ideas
- Detrus 15y agoThe analysis of the results of risky blue sky vs. safe incremental approaches seems relevant to startup incubators.
- MaysonL 15y agoThat's how ARPA used to work: find the best people, give them the money they needed to do the research they wanted to do. Worked pretty well.
- davi 15y agoInteresting to see the Howard Hughes Medical Institute mention. I'm a Fellow at the Janelia Farm Research Campus of HHMI. I get a big budget, two people in my group, the ability to use massive internal resources (electrical and mechanical engineers, software developers, histology, etc.), no teaching requirements, no administrative requirements, and a 5 year contract. I'm swinging for the fences, no point in doing otherwise; this is my shot. If anybody is curious: http://www.hhmi.org/research/fellows/bock.html http://www.hhmi.org/research/fellows/bock.html Browse big data: http://openconnectomeproject.org/catmaid/?pid=4&zp=0&yp=239196&xp=270396&sid0=4&s0=8 http://openconnectomeproject.org/catmaid/?pid=4&zp=0&... Papers: http://reid.med.harvard.edu/pdf/Bock-Lee-etal-Reid-2011-Nature.pdf http://reid.med.harvard.edu/pdf/Bock-Lee-etal-Reid-2011-Natu..., http://reid.med.harvard.edu/pdf/Bock-Lee-etal-Reid-2011-NatureSupp.pdf http://reid.med.harvard.edu/pdf/Bock-Lee-etal-Reid-2011-Natu... And (last but not least) I am hiring: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2504657 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2504657
- aaronblohowiak 15y agoYour work is amazing. I am going to follow up with reading some of your papers tomorrow. On behalf of humanity, Thank You.